Today's News

Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) joins the Agriculture Council of America (ACA) and farming organizations across the country to celebrate National Agriculture Day on March 25. This day has been set aside annually since 1973 to highlight the many ways America’s food system improves the quality of life for everyone.

Firefighters from Lebanon, Loretto and Raywick spent two hours Monday evening combating a house fire at 3756 St. Mary’s Road in Lebanon.
Lebanon Fire Chief Ricky Mattingly said the fire appeared to have started in the kitchen near the stove.
“We saved a lot of stuff in it, but it was ruined, at least half of it was,” Mattingly said.
No injuries were reported because of the fire.
The Lebanon Police Dispatch received a call reporting the fire at 8:46 p.m. Monday. Firefighters were on the scene until 12:50 a.m. Tuesday.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for Central Kentucky from 2 p.m. Sunday, March 16, until 8 a.m. Monday, March 17.

The weather service is predicting one to two inches of sleet and snow this afternoon and evening, with higher amounts in isolated areas. Slicks spots are likely are some roads and bridges, according to the weather service.

Winds will blow from the northeast at 10 to 15 miles per hour with gusts between 25 and 35 miles per hour. Temperatures will drop into the 20s and low 30s, according to the weather service.

The 11th annual Marion County High School Beta Junior Mister competition will be at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 22, in the MCHS gymnasium.
This year's theme is "A Starry Night.” There are 18 young men in the show this year.
All proceeds for the event will go to the Make-a-Wish Foundation to grant the wish of a child.
Advance tickets may be purchased at MCHS or at the Kroger customer service desk for $5. Tickets at the door will be $7. Kroger is partnering with MCHS this year to raise money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

The deadline to enroll for coverage through Kynect, Kentucky’s online health insurance exchange, is March 31. The website is kynect.ky.gov.
When Gov. Steve Beshear announced the deadline the exchange, he said Kentucky had 640,000 uninsured citizens (about 15 percent of the state population). Of that group, an estimated 308,000 would qualify for expanded Medicaid coverage.

As April draws closer, more Marion County High School students are popping the question... “Prom?”
And, what used to be a simple question has grown to an elaborate and creative undertaking.
We want to hear about this year’s best “Promposals.”
For example, Cody Thomas wanted to ask a special young woman to the prom and wrote the following:

The Marion County Soil Conservation District received $50,000 from the Marion County Fiscal Court during the current fiscal year.
During the 2014-15 fiscal year, however, the district’s board of supervisors hope to increase its local revenue to $100,000. To do so, they are seeking permission to become a taxing district. The supervisors presented their proposal during the March 6 meeting of the Marion County Fiscal Court.

Julia Browning Devine, 44, is living proof that one’s body, mind and spirit can endure far more than many of us can even imagine.
She’s lived with kidney disease since the age of 15. At 33, she received a kidney transplant. Six years later, doctors discovered she had a brain tumor and it had to be removed. The toll of brain surgery, along with complications of chronic rejection, and ongoing infections, caused her transplanted kidney to fail. Today, she has no kidneys and has to undergo dialysis treatment three days a week for more than three hours each day.